Quotes:Llorente, Juan Antonio

Zirkoff, Boris

Llórente, Juan Antonio. Spanish historian; b. March 30, 1756; d. at Madrid, Feb. 5, 1823. Ordained priest, 1779; rose to high Church Office. Advocate of Council of Castile, 1781. Vicar General of Calahorra, 1782. General Sec’y of Spanish Inquisition, 1789. Canon of chief Church, Toledo, 1806. Voltairian infiltration into Spain enlightened him; he joined the French, and was banished, 1813. Wrote in France his outspoken Historia Critica de la Inquisición de España, 1822. 10 vols. (abridged and tr. into Engl, as The History of the Inquisition of Spain. London, 1826. 583 pp.; also 1827). Suspended and forbidden to teach. Wrote then the antipapal work: Portraits politiques des Papes. Expelled from France; went to Madrid and died shortly after arrival.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 6, p. 440